Reports: Only 3 teams plan to open practice facilities on Friday as NBA eases restrictions

According to reports, only three teams intend to take advantage on Friday.

The NBA, like other sports leagues, continues to navigate a strategy to get back to business amid a backdrop of medical experts warning that easing broader shelter-at-home restrictions will lead breath new life into the pandemic.

No more than four players would be permitted at a facility at any one time.

No head or assistant coaches could participate.

Group activity remains prohibited, including practices or scrimmages.

Players remain prohibited from using non-team facilities such as public health clubs, fitness centers, or gyms.

Pandemic is still here

The openings arrive alongside a greater movement among state governments to ease shelter-in-place restrictions that were put in place to thwart the spread of the coronavirus.

That easing comes amid pressure to restart the economy despite warnings from medical experts that opening too soon will lead to further spread of COVID-19, delivering more illness and death and another blow to an already battered economy.